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by ehvatum 3y ago
Lest we not forget, there is Detroit
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> Keeping the jank of X11 around was never long-term viable Ha, it’s like saying “keeping the jank of win32, directx, GDI was never long-term viable” as your one and only argument for the inevitable success of Windows RT. Fools, the lot
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by ehvatum 3y ago
By the ones doing the considering. We get together every spring in Lucern to revise the Book of Considerations.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Jupiter has a lot of magnetism and the baroque clockwork ballet of its moons in the solar wind and on its stormy poles never fail to sing their eternal opera. My grandfather, Hein Hvatum, thought this might be the case and happened to be th
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by ehvatum 3y ago
The purpose of regulation and regulatory enforcement is to make what would be lucrative nuisance behavior highly unprofitable for the offender. For example, in the cases of shoplifting or selling fentanyl on the street, lack of enforcement-
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by ehvatum 3y ago
I feel embarrassed for Germany. So much pride, built on dishonesty and exploitation of customers and other EU nations. Getting to the point of implementing meaningful reform will be tremendously ugly, in a country that derives such gratific
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> So the point is that you are simply wrong about your understanding of the issue. The intellectual community fully accepts the possibility of hydrogen as a widespread fuel and a way to solve climate change. That is terribly naive and wi
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Iran systematically employed 12-16 year olds en masse for the purposes of clearing minefields and drawing Iraqi fire. Perhaps 50,000 Iranian children were sacrificed in this manner. Iraq regularly responded to these child-wave tactics by de
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> i have a non tesla ev and it’s totally fine It really isn’t. Driving my Leaf or i3 beyond 70 miles round trip is absolute Russian roulette. Will the charger be in service? Will it accept payment? Will it accept payment and then, for un
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by ehvatum 3y ago
The R community is fantastic and very helpful for getting started. There is so much peace of mind to be gained by doing everything in R and then using R’s write.xlsx to output the excel sheet for your users. Python+pandas is an ok alternati
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> I'm curious why you think food prices will rise More money (provided by UBI) chasing fewer resources (less reason to work) until a new equilibrium is reached. Somebody has to farm, and it’s not easy work.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> So where the FUCK is all that money going? Please be aware that higher education is a massive dumping ground for the lowest-performing segment of the politically-connected managerial class, who are too cowardly and lazy to run for elec
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Don’t be a tool. A heroin addict’s motivation to acquire heroin is infinitely greater than a heroin addict’s motivation for anything else in the world .
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> The fact that they don't have bureaucracy is a direct consequence of them not doing any work right now. Is “bureaucracy” a euphemism for Diversity, Equity And Inclusion busybodies, in this case?
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> There are 16 CHAdeMO charging points in the US You are wrong by a factor of over one hundred. > That's it. Yeah, except for the thousands of chademo charge points outside of your microscopic awareness. https://www.en
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> This implies than it's much easier to do nuclear again independent of what the people of Japan want or not want. Oh excuse me, I didn’t realize you’re a populist.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Vice News used to be great and essentially apolitical. They went to interesting, dangerous places and reported what they saw by showing you what they saw. Their viewership grew rapidly. Fast-forward. All new Vice productions are deeply and
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by ehvatum 3y ago
I don’t think stinknet requires cleared land. Vegetation in the Arizona desert doesn’t form an unbroken canopy. Water is the limiting factor, and stinknet is apparently more efficient than any native plant at immediately converting water in
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by ehvatum 3y ago
I know from experience that both Norway and Sweden have credit score systems. It’s an expedient way to formalize a single important aspect of reputation, so that people who are careful to service their debts can borrow on favorable terms. I
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by ehvatum 3y ago
I mean obviously wherever a date time entry can be found, there should be a TZ drop-down and a DST checkbox. lusers who don’t know what those things are will learn soon enough. I really mean it. The ambiguity is a problem.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> If they have a liquidity crisis the western world will essentially end. Already had one in 2008. Thankfully, our currency’s value is notional and the fed can print more until such time as the bank run ends.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Benzoylindole, the active ingredient in most “Spice” products, is not found in cannabis and its metabolites are toxic as hell.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> Much of it wasnt meant to be relevant for decades, it was meant to be ephemeral topical entertainment, and functionally intended to be disposable. As with Pompeii graffiti and warehouse cuneiform tally tablets, from the anthropological
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Perfectly peaceful? You must be talking about a different Portland. One without a Federal courthouse that was attacked nightly for months on end. “Fiery, but mostly peaceful” is a euphemism we all can live with.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
It’s an advertising company. Their destiny is to reach parity with Clear Channel Communications in terms of ethics and quality.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
If you saw a chart of Stanford administrative overhead growth, you would be aghast. All these useless busybody administrators sucking down $100k+/yr compete for visibility in order to grow their compensation and hire yet even more of t
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by ehvatum 4y ago
It’s worth noting that Elon unbanned a whole slew of accounts that had been silenced simply for disagreeing with what happen to be your political priorities. Who has Elon banned for their politics? Being banned for tweeting Andy Ngo’s curre
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by ehvatum 4y ago
I hope you’re not suggesting that the DA being motivated by politics is a bad thing. He’s an elected official. His job is to respond to his constituents by prosecuting people they don’t like.
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by ehvatum 4y ago
I recommend starting right out of the gate with a modest project goal in mind, such as something neat to 3d print, or a simulation of interesting gears turning. The period where you feel like you’re progressing the least and struggling the
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by ehvatum 4y ago
Having worked with the St. Louis housing authority in the past, I bid work for urban development authorities at a 10x multiplier, and I am elated to tell my investors that we tried, and our bids were rejected. You cannot possibly imagine th

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